John Lenwood McLean was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator. He is one of the few musicians to be elected to the DownBeat Hall of Fame in the year of their death.
Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, OC was a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. from the 1950s onwards.
Tony Oxley was an English free improvising drummer and electronic musician.
Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE, also known as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist, clarinettist and writer of film scores. With his wife, jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine, he was a music educator and also her music director.
Tim Garland is a British jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. His compositions draw from modern jazz and classical concert music.
Michael Clement Irving Gibbs is a Rhodesian-born English jazz composer, conductor, arranger and producer as well as a trombonist and keyboardist.
Anthony George Coe was an English jazz musician who played clarinet, bass clarinet, and flute as well as soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones.
Martin France was a British jazz drummer. He recorded on over 100 albums and was a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He was sponsored by Paiste cymbals.
Kenny Baker was an English jazz trumpet, cornet and flugelhorn player, and a composer.
Music for Large & Small Ensembles is a double album by Canadian jazz trumpeter Kenny Wheeler recorded over two sessions in January and February 1990 and released on ECM later that year. The Sweet Time Suite' is Wheeler's most ambitious extended work for big band since 1969's Windmill Tilter.
Alan Branscombe was an English jazz pianist, vibraphonist, and alto saxophonist.
Henry Shalofsky, better known as Hank Shaw was an English bebop jazz trumpeter.
Thomas Henry Lowther is an English jazz trumpeter who also plays violin.
What the Dickens! is a 1963 recording by Johnny Dankworth, accompanied by his orchestra and guests, some of the leading UK jazz musicians of the day. It is a suite based on characters and scenarios associated with Charles Dickens. It was recorded in London on 29 and 31 July, 7 August and 4 October 1963, and released as a vinyl album. What the Dickens! was bundled with Off Duty in a 2012 reissue.
Stan Robinson was an English jazz tenor saxophonist and flautist.
Frank Holder was a Guyanese jazz singer and percussionist. He was a member of bands led by Jiver Hutchinson, Johnny Dankworth and Joe Harriott.
Derek Roy Watkins was an English jazz, pop, and classical trumpeter. Best known for his lead trumpet work on the soundtracks of James Bond films, Watkins recorded with British jazz bandleaders as well as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, and The Beatles. Dizzy Gillespie called him "Mr. Lead".
Robert Leslie "Bob" Cornford was a British jazz pianist and composer.
Where Do We Go from Here? is an album of duets by flugelhornist Kenny Wheeler with pianist John Taylor recorded in 2004 and released on the CAM Jazz label.
Rob Luft is an English jazz guitarist and composer from London, United Kingdom. He has released three albums, Riser, Life Is The Dancer & Dahab Days, as a solo artist on British label Edition Records. His playing has also been documented on several albums released by the legendary German jazz label ECM Records, most notably on John Surman's critically acclaimed 2024 release Words Unspoken.
